On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 01:37:17PM -0400, Clint Adams wrote: > What? Why would anyone want a proliferation of packages that are identical > except for one control field? If Plagiarism GNU+Linux wants to take my > package, modify nothing except the control file, what purpose does it serve > to have bug reports go to them instead of to me? In fact, what purpose does > it serve to even have the duplicate package at all? > > If, on the other hand, they're actually going to modify the packing so that > all binaries live in /usr/local/var, then they should modify the Origin and > take credit for their genius. I don't think there is any way we can really control these problems, regardless. -- G. Branden Robinson | Measure with micrometer, Debian GNU/Linux | mark with chalk, branden@debian.org | cut with axe, http://www.debian.org/~branden/ | hope like hell.
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